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I don't agree with the uniqueness of AI risk. A large asteroid impacting earth is a non-hypothetical existential risk presently out of our control. We do not cu
by RandomLensman 3y ago
I don't agree with the uniqueness of AI risk. A large asteroid impacting earth is a non-hypothetical existential risk presently out of our control. We do not currently plan on spending trillions to have a comprehensive early detection system and equipment to control that risk.
The differentiating thing here is that blocking hypothetical AI risk is cheap, while mitigating real risks is expensive.
- cma 3y agoWe have a decent grasp of the odds of an asteroid extinction event in a way that we don't for AI.
- RandomLensman 3y agoAnd that makes taking that extinction risk everyday better?
- cma 3y agoHow do we not take it every day? We can work on it in the long term and things like developing safe AI may have more impact on mitigating asteroid risk than working on scaling up existing nuclear, rocket, and observation tech to tackle it.